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Originally Posted by Lycia The Repentant
You've made so many Godly points here, Brother LSM! Allow me to ask a quick question for any unsaved trash who wander in here.
If American wasn't the best language in the world, then how come when I walk into a bookstore all the so-called "literary classics" there are written in American? For example, if people like Rabelais, Voltaire, Hugo, Maupassant, Proust and Camus liked their heathen French so much, why are all their books in my local Barnes and Nobles in American?
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Simple really. As the world's foremost language these authors have to get their works translated into it to escape the limited parochial spreadability they'd be subjecting themselves to if they only published in their local languages.
Why has no-one ever heard of Miguel Fernández? He only published in Spanish.
And Sorlaidh Mac Gill' Eathain? He only published in Scottish Gaelic. Only losers do that.
American is a MUST for reaching the masses.